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echolalia

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Definition:
a mental disease which makes people immediately repeat things that well people around them say.

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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1. [psychology] The immediate, involuntary, and repetitive echoing of words or phrases spoken by another.
2. An infant's repetitive imitation of vocal sounds spoken by another person, occurring naturally during childhood development.
3. Any apparently meaningless, repetitious noises, especially voices.

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“Where were you?” she asked Billy.
“Dresden,” said Billy.
“Dresden,” Lily told Rumfoord.
“He’s simply echoing things we say,” said Rumfoord.
“Oh,” said Lily.
“He’s got echolalia now.”

Kurt Vonnegut. Slaughterhouse-Five (1968)
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There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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